That Amiel speech
A few weeks ago I said I would try to get a copy of Barbara Amiel's speech from the Maccabi Canada dinner honouring Robert Lantos. I have not been able to get one, but I found an article online in Canadian Jewish News that offers some choice quotes. Some snippets:
--The UN resolution [equating Zionism with racism], though later rescinded, was “the official coming out in the postwar world of the vibrant anti-Semitism we’re experiencing today,” Amiel said.
“It has been reinstated in all but name by many resolutions passed by that odious body [the United Nations],” and at [the 2001 UN World Conference Against racism in Durban, South Africa], it was taken up by NGOs,” she said.
-- A form of “pragmatic anti-Semitism” can be found in Canada’s foreign policy, which sees Canada vote for or abstain on UN votes critical of Israel while hoping to mitigate its actions “by saying things would have been much, much worse if Canada was not around,” Amiel said.
The UN, she continued, is a collection of failed states and opportunists, but “Ottawa mandarins love it and can strut around the world stage.”
--“Being even-handed between the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Israel Defense Force is a foul joke. It is like being even-handed between heaven and hell."
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 11:20 PM
